CONTENTS. 



PAGES 



Henry Alken's "Mytton" Illustrations . . iii — xviii 

 Preface to the First Edition . . - . . xix— xxi 

 A Notice of Nimrod i — 14 



PART I. 



Pedigree of Mr. Mytton — His original name — His contest for 

 the county of Salop — His ancestor Thomas Mytton — Hal- 

 ston described — Extent of Mr. Mytton's property and its 

 various situations — His education, and letter to the Lord 

 Chancellor — Nick-named Mango — Enters the army — His 

 doings at Calais when in the Seventh Hussars — His first mar- 

 riage — His sister, her character — His person antl mind de- 

 scribed — His pugnacious disposition — His dress — His method 

 of following wild-fowl — His feats in riding distances on the 

 road, and his walking — His powers of digestion — His daring 

 exploits, putting his life to hazard — Upsets a friend in a gig 

 • — His wonderful escapes in carriages — His indifference to 

 pain — Is taken for a tailor with Lord Derby's hounds — His 

 treatment of a Jew money-lender — His extraordinary frolics 

 with his chaplain, his doctor, his butler, the bear, a horse- 

 dealer, the filly in training, dogs and foxes — An evening 

 at Halston — His contest with a ferocious dog — His general 

 character — His reason for selling an old family estate — His 

 establishment at Halston — Amount of his expenditure — His 

 fox-hounds, his racing establishment, his game-preserves, his 

 cellars and his wardrobe — "Light come, light go" — Tricks 

 played by travellers — His gambling — Only one John Mytton 

 — The bill for pheasants — His enjoyment of life — The Halston 

 Chaplain, ....... pp. 15 — 76 



